Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Vegan MoFo - Shelly's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies!

*Maybe if I act nonchalantly nobody will notice that I missed a good chunk of Vegan MoFo and I've been hiding from the world for a couple of weeks*

Thank you for all the encouragement! You guys are the bestest! I promise I am done being a slowpoke and I will work hard at getting this e-cookbook finished as soon as possible!

The mister and I celebrated Thankspiggin' a couple of Sundays ago, and now we're ready to celebrate Flakemas whenever we get the first good snow of the season. Flakemas will be all about celebrating the purdy snow, the cold weather, the purdy lights and decorations around town, eating festive cookies, gift-giving, and whatever fun stuff we feel like celebrating. There will be snowy movie marathons and plenty of hot chocolate and sweet treats! I like the element of surprise because we don't know for sure when the first good snow of the season will be. Bring on Flakemas! What's with all the made up holidays, you ask? Meh. I'm bored with all the traditional stuff.

What I am not bored with is good food! Particularly cookies.

How d'ya like that mug, Shelly? :)

Awful pictures, awesome cookies! I knew I wanted to make these as soon as I saw them on Shelly's blog, and I have already made them several times. These ganache-filled, thumbprint Peanut Butter Cup Cookies deserve some major Blog-Love!

Today's Blog-Love goes out to Shellyfish @ Musings From the Fishbowl! Shelly's blog is très fabuleux (totally had to use google translate!) There's the délicieux side of Shelly's blog, where you will find lots of vegan recipes in a brand new and neatly organized recipe index, and there's the super crafty side of Shelly's blog which will make you *squee* at all her W.I.P Wednesdays adorableness! If you're lucky enough you might even catch a glimpse of her little Guppy, the official Sprinkle Sprinkler! Check out Shellyfish's blog! :)

I had to add some extra ganache because for some reason I was all prudish and dainty with the pre-baking application of the chocolate and they didn't have as much ganache as they should have. I felt pretty badass about making them with my own homemade peanut butter, brown sugar, and brown rice milk. You must make these cookies! You must! I'm telling you they're the bomb-diggity-bomb-bomb! Check out Shelly's recipe!

PS: I'm thinking about writing a "Happy Post" that I can use to cheer me up whenever I have the mean-reds and I want to hide from the world. It would consist of a few of the things that never fail to make me laugh or at least smile. What do you think? Does that sound really cheesy or would you be interested in reading a Happy Post?

I would love a Happy Post. I could do with a Happy Post right now, in fact!

Those cookies look so divine. I was ogling them over at Shelly's blog the other day. I just need to make it through until Sunday, and then I might have some time to actually think and sleep and bake - hurrah! You are so kitchen goddess cool with all your homemade ingredients too!

I love today's kitteh picture. I always warn people that anything from my kitchen may contain traces of cat hair. ;)

Thanks, guys! I will work on a big happy post then! There will be kittehs, good TV shows, cute wildlife, and yummy foods! :D

Claire - I did what Shelly suggested and started with one cup, adding more flour gradually until I had a thickish/dryish dough. I'm gonna say somewhere between 1.5 and 2 cups? My peanut butter was VERY runny because I had just made it (I'm totally bragging about my homemade peanut butter again) so it might have absorbed more flour than a regular, more solid peanut butter would.

ha ha ha !! I LOVE that KITTEH!!!! oh my gosh, it is totally cracking me up. With 3 dogs and a cat, that is pretty much the story of my culinary adventures. Once I had some "anonymous" comment on a 6-month-old post that only said "if you blow up this picture, there is a cat hair on the avocado" Dude! cut me some slack!

Oh, the mean reds! I love that you quoted my all-time favorite movie in this post. Last year, I was able to see, on the big screen, a really cool cut of the film that I'd never seen before; it was a cut borrowed from UCLA's archives that featured scenes that aren't part of the film that has been distributed widely. But I digress...

I think it's awesome that you've coined new phrases for these holidays and that you whipped up a Shellyfish recipe! You two are fabulous!

Of course I love the mug!!! You know what I like, Ms. River.Thank you for the very sweet things you said my dear, feeling very sentimental and warm and fuzzy about it all, really. I feel happy already!I'm so glad you're back and those mean reds have subsided. I was worried about not seeing you. There is nothing worse than feeling terribly when you don't know why. Bring on the happy post - and I'm with Andrea, with kitties!

Definitely do a happy post. My baby animals post always makes me happy when I look at it so I do that quite often whenever I need a smile. Totally digging the Shelly love - that girl is très fabuleux for sure. And as much as I LOVE LOVE LOVE your flakemas it's a good job it's only a River holiday and not an official holiday 'cos it would never happen here. It never snows here.But I'll join you on the celebratin' cos I can do that.Even if I have to throw cotton wool about my head to make me feel like it's snowing.xx

Yes, I am THIS far behind in my blog reading! MoFo really pushed me back. . .but glad I got to see those cookies because they are awesome! And a Happy Post sounds like a great idea to me--I may just borrow it! ;)

Welcome to Wing It Vegan! I am River and this blog is where I keep track of my favorite recipes. Hopefully you will find some new favorites here as well! Please, don't run away scared if you're not vegan! I promise I won't throw rotten beets or snarky judgments at you. MORE